- Hardcover: 303 pages
- Publisher: Archipelago Books (Jun 1 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 098198732X
- ISBN-13: 978-0981987323
- Product Dimensions: 16.8 x 16.3 x 3.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 476 g
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#703,498 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #93 in Books > Literature & Fiction > World Literature > Middle Eastern > Arabic
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Product Description
“Khoury is the sort of novelist whose name is inseparable from a city. Los Angeles has Joan Didion and Raymond Chandler, and Istanbul, Orhan Pamuk. The beautiful, resilient city of Beirut belongs to Khoury.”—Laila Lalami, Los Angeles Times
“Because the world is the way it is, because whole groups of people can be maligned, neglected, ignored, for too many years, we need the voice of Elias Khoury—detailed, exquisite, humane—more than ever. Read him. Without fail, read him.”—Naomi Shihab Nye
Why was the corpse of Khalil Ahmed Jâber found in the municipal garbage dump? Why had this civil servant disappeared weeks before his horrific death? Who was this man? A journalist begins to piece together an answer by speaking with his widow, a local engineer, the concierge, the garbage man who discovered him, the doctor who performed the autopsy, and a young soldier. Their stories emerge, along with the horrors of the bloody civil war and ravaging effects on the human psyche. With empathy and pain, Elias Khoury reveals the havoc the war has wreaked on Beirut and its inhabitants, as well as the resilience of a people.
Born in Beirut in 1948, Elias Khoury is the author of over a dozen novels, four volumes of literary criticism, and three plays. His Gate of the Sun—deemed “a genuine masterwork” by The New York Times Book Review—was a 2006 New York Times Notable Book and was named Best Book of the Year by both The Christian Science Monitor and the San Francisco Chronicle. He is a Global Distinguished Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University.
Maia Tabet was born in Lebanon and is a sometime literary translator and a professional cook, now living in the U.S. She is the translator of Khoury’s first novel to be published in English, Little Mountain, and has also translated the poetry of Adonis.
About the Author
Elias Khoury is the editor of the literary supplement of al-Nahar newspaper in Beirut. He has taught at the American University of Beirut, Columbia University, and NYU. Picador will bring out GATE of the SUN in paperback this spring and Little Mountain, Gates of the City, and The Journey of Little Ghandi.
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Tells of a murder in Lebanon and how this event shakes the lives of everyone involved, July 8 2010
By Midwest Book Review - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: White Masks (Hardcover)
Justice and the law are handled differently in many places in the world. "White Masks" tells of a murder in Lebanon and how this event shakes the lives of everyone involved. A journalist searches for the truth, and in the search, something much deeper is found, as author Elias Khoury tells a take if Kebanon, masterfully translated from the original Arabic by Maia Tabet. For those seeking a modern Arabic novel, "White Masks" will serve that purpose well.
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